Control

Nothing reaches a customer without you

The actions that leave your workspace or move money stop and wait for a person — by default, in the channel you already watch, with what was proposed and what you decided kept on the record.

The request arrives where you already are, with what triggered the run, the draft as written and the account it would use. Approve it, change one line, or stop it. The run holds until you do, and the record keeps all three: what was proposed, what you decided, what was carried out.

On by default · Approve, edit or reject · In WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram or Awish · Kept on the record

Animation: a sensitive step waits for approval. The owner is asked in Slack, edits one line, approves, the run continues, and the approval is recorded with who, when and where.

Which actions wait

Not a setting you have to remember to switch on. This is how a workflow behaves before you configure anything.

  • Anything that reaches a person outside your workspace

    An email, a message, a reply to a customer. The draft is written and then held, with the recipient and the text in front of you.

  • Anything that moves money

    Refunds, payouts, credits and payment changes hold for a person regardless of the amount, unless you have set a threshold that says otherwise.

  • Anything published

    Posts, listings and public status updates wait, because a published mistake cannot be recalled by the workflow that made it.

  • Anything the plan marked

    The approval points are shown in the plan before you agree to it, so the gates are never a surprise at run time.

Where you approve

In WhatsApp, Slack or Telegram, or in Awish itself. The request arrives with the context it needs — what triggered the run, what the workflow proposes to do, and which account it would use — so the decision does not require opening another tab.

You can approve it, edit it before it goes, or reject it. Editing is the option that matters most in practice: the workflow is usually right about the shape of the action and wrong about a detail, and rewriting one line is faster than describing the whole thing again.

What the record keeps

  • What was proposed

    The action as the workflow drafted it, before anyone touched it.

  • What you decided

    Approved, edited or rejected — with the edit, if you made one.

  • What was carried out

    The action as it actually ran, which is not always the same as what was proposed.

Common questions

Can I turn the approval gate off?

You can raise a threshold so that routine actions below it run without asking — a refund under a limit you set, for example. What you cannot do is remove the gate from a category by accident: it is the default, and lowering it is a deliberate change you make per workflow.

What happens while an action is waiting?

The run holds at that step. It does not time out into sending, and it does not skip ahead to the steps after it — a workflow that could continue past an unanswered gate would not be an approval gate.

Who is allowed to approve?

The person or channel the workflow was set up to ask. An approval arriving from anywhere else is not accepted, which is what stops the gate from being bypassed by a message that merely looks official.

See the gate before you trust it

Describe a workflow that touches a customer. The plan will show you where it stops, before anything connects.

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